Technische Universität Dresden has issued guidelines to ensure that are mandatory for all employees engaged in scientific research, young researchers as well as all students.

• Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice, Avoiding Scientific Misconduct and Dealing with Violations (pdf)

Supervision of junior researchers

The Doctoral Degree regulations of all of TUD’s Faculties require the conclusion of a supervision agreement.  As a target agreement, it spells out and regulates the specific rights and duties with regard to the cooperation between the doctoral candidates and  supervisor, based on the doctoral regulations of the faculties. Moreover, the conclusion of a supervision agreement is explicitly demaned in the Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice at the TU Dresden. The Supervision Agreement can be found here Supervision-Agreement_Formular.pdf

Liaison Officer for Young Researchers

TU Dresden is strongly committed to the promotion of young scientists. Each Faculty has appointed Liasons Officers for young researchers.  The Liaison Officers serve as an easily accessible point of contact for young researchers (especially doctoral candidates) and, in particular, they help mediate in problematic situations. A list of contacts can be found here Vertrauenspersonen-der-Fakultaeten- 2019.pdf.

Good Scientific Practice Workshops for students and doctoral candidates

Qualified course instructors for workshops on “Good Scientific Practice” (GSP) offer on request in-house GSP trainings for students and doctoral candidates of TU Dresden:

Qualified staff of the Graduate Academy (GA) offer introductory GSP courses for doctoral candidates on a regular basis as well as an advisory service. In addition, two-day GSP courses are offered in the regular GA qualification program as well as on related topics such as Research Data Management. Since this autum the GA also offers an elearning introductory course on GSP online. Furthermore, certified contact persons are available in all five Schools, in the Excellence Clusters (cfaed ans CRTD) as well as in the Graduate School DIGS-BB, who can offer subject-specific GSP workshops for Master students and doctoral candidates. A list of contacts can be found here.Trainer_GWP.pdf

 Research Data Managment Guidelines

In the course of the scientific process, a large number of data are generated. These research data can be obtained by both qualitative and quantitative research, e.g. through interviews, surveys, experiments or observations and in analogue or digital form as text documents, tables, logbooks, surveys, audio and video recordings, samples, collections, database contents or protocols.

Research data form the basis for the traceability of one's own research in the sense of good scientific practice. In addition, the data obtained are also of interest for possible reuse. On the one hand, new insights can be gained, on the other hand, the recognition of the scientific work increases when it is reused.

The Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice, Avoiding Scientific Misconduct and Dealing with Violations (pdf) require the storing of research data for at least 10 years and establish the handling of primary data. To design the handling of research data in general, in addition to primary data, the TU Dresden has decided guidelines for the handling of research data at the TU Dresden and has set up a Service Center Research Data in cooperation with the SLUBLeitlinien für den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten an der TU Dresden.pdf.

For further information contact the Service Center Research Data: https://tu-dresden.de/forschung/services-fuer-forschende/kontaktstelle-forschungsdaten

Autorship

Authors of an original scientific publication shall be all those, and only those,
who have made significant contributions to the conception of studies or experiments,
to the generation, analysis and interpretation of the data, and to
preparing the manuscript, and who have consented to its publication, thereby
assuming responsibility for it. Some journals demand that this be documented
through the signatures of all authors. Others ask for a written statement to this
effect by the corresponding author as the person responsible for a manuscript
as a whole and in all its details.
Therefore, the following contributions on their own are not sufficient to justify
authorship:
► merely organisational responsibility for obtaining the funds for the research,
► providing standard investigation material,
► the training of staff in standard methods,
► merely technical work on data collection,
► merely technical support, such as only providing equipment or experimental
animals,
► regularly providing datasets only,
► only reading the manuscript without substantial contributions to its content,
► directing an institution or working unit in which the publication originates.

Help of this kind can be acknowledged in footnotes or in the foreword.
“Honorary authorship” is generally not considered to be acceptable under any
circumstances.
Neither the position of institute director and supervisor nor former
supervisor justify designation as co-author.

Liaison Officer (Ombudsperson)

Based on these guidelines, a liaison officer / ombudsperson has been appointed. The liaison officer is a person of contact, advisor and mediator in all cases of suspected scientific misconduct.

If the Liaison Officer (Ombudsperson) has reasonable ground for suspecting of scientific misconduct, it will be examined by the inquiry commission. In suspected cases where the misconduct relates to academic examinations (e.g. Bachelor´s, Master´s degree, “Diplom” degree) or graduation (doctorate, habilitation), it will be examined by the regular examination board designated by the respective examination and graduation regulations.

Deputy:

Evaluation body for the investigation of scientific misconduct

The evaluation body for the investigation of scientific misconduct supports the work of the Liaison Officer (Ombudsperson), the inquiry commission and the regular examination boards in cases of suspected misconduct. It also assists in reviewing dissertations for plagiarism, using plagiarism detection software.

Research Ombudsperson

The Research Ombudsman (appointed by the German Research Foundation DFG) may be directly approached by all researchers -independent of any connection with the DFG - for advice and support pertaining to good scientific practice and its abuse due to scientific dishonesty.  In particular, this applies to the counselling of persons who provided an indication of scientific misconduct ("whistleblower") and therefore are subject to sanctions by other institutions.

http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/grundlagen_rahmenbedingungen/gwp/ombudsman/index.html